Not a whine--just the facts.

I'm starting a much needed 3 day weekend!! I worked in the IV room on Monday and Wednesday and was a floor tech on Tuesday and Thursday. Thank goodness we work four 10 hour days! The days in the IV room were just too busy--besides all the regular inpatient IV's that we are responsible for making, we have to make the outpatient IV's plus all the chemo being administered that day. Most days even with all that, it's not too bad but this week we had about triple the chemo to do each day. Needless to say I was pooped at the end of my shift yesterday. Mixing chemo for several hours straight is not a fun time. You're concentrating so hard on doing your job and getting the calculations correct plus the physical task of actually mixing the drugs, it's just mentally and physically draining. Don't get me wrong--I love my job, even the worst day at the hospital is better than the best day I had at Wal-Mart (if that makes sense?), but I prefer the days to be a little less stressful!